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December 31, 2017
New Year's Glass - half full or half empty?
It’s that time of year when we look back to what we have achieved, and forward to what we might achieve… if we put our backs into it, if we don’t pause to worry that we’ve chosen the wrong career path, the wrong genre, the wrong character, the wrong viewpoint, the wrong word.
I’ve come to realise that whether my glass is half full or half empty, I have a tendency to spend too much time
I’ve come to realise that whether my glass is half full or half empty, I have a tendency to spend too much time
December 22, 2017
All Things Father Christmas, Including Santa and NORAD
I've decided to let this become a tradition, because, as with all good Traditions, it has the right amount of fact while not taking itself too seriously.
The article was written by me for Christmas 2016, but remains an evergreen to raise a smile, and snippets can be retold over a glass of something warming and yet another mince pie.
Wishing all my readers, of this blog and of my books, a
The article was written by me for Christmas 2016, but remains an evergreen to raise a smile, and snippets can be retold over a glass of something warming and yet another mince pie.
Wishing all my readers, of this blog and of my books, a
December 15, 2017
Christmas Cheesecake and Microphones
Come down to The Wrygarth on Wednesday, they said, we've something going on.
It soon became clear that what was going on was 'The Phil White Show' from Radio Humberside. It's a good job the front car park of our local, The Wrygarth Inn at Great Hatfield, is of a size to back in its travelling studio. I never did ask mine hosts, Ray and Sandra Thompson, if they'd measured it beforehand.
It soon became clear that what was going on was 'The Phil White Show' from Radio Humberside. It's a good job the front car park of our local, The Wrygarth Inn at Great Hatfield, is of a size to back in its travelling studio. I never did ask mine hosts, Ray and Sandra Thompson, if they'd measured it beforehand.
December 9, 2017
White Ladies and Green Teeth
The Torc of Moonlight Trilogy launches today! Yay! And just in time to snuggle down over the Christmas break and immerse yourself in 900 pages of time-spanning Fantasy. Is it Fantasy?The characters are clearly fictional, I make no bones about that, but I’m also clear about the settings being real-world places readers can visit. That leaves the un-named deity who, by slow degrees, is determined
December 2, 2017
Testing Software: Kindle Create
While I was constructing the three books of the Torc of Moonlight trilogy into a digital boxed set, I came across mention of Kindle Create, Amazon KDP’s formatting software. I
decided to give it a whirl, but not on a three-book boxed set (!). Normally I use my ancient version of Word (2002), but even I can live in the past for only so long and I have recently moved on to LibreOffice5 Writer
decided to give it a whirl, but not on a three-book boxed set (!). Normally I use my ancient version of Word (2002), but even I can live in the past for only so long and I have recently moved on to LibreOffice5 Writer
November 25, 2017
Boxed Set Trilogy now on Pre-Order
After hours of fun last week, the digital boxed set of the three Torc of Moonlight novels is finally available for pre-order - launching 8th December.
The novels concern the resurrection of a Celtic water deity in an area of what is now the North York Moors in England. Ritual deposits in water courses are a given in archaeology, and I use the ultimate - a sword - in Book 1 to kick off the
The novels concern the resurrection of a Celtic water deity in an area of what is now the North York Moors in England. Ritual deposits in water courses are a given in archaeology, and I use the ultimate - a sword - in Book 1 to kick off the
November 17, 2017
Formatting the Trilogy into a Digital Box Set
Three novels, formatted to (almost) perfection, to be amalgamated into a single file for a trilogy box set. How problematic can it be?Quite a bit, as it turns out. And it’s down to technology, or the incremental improvements in technology. During the period it has taken to write and launch the individual novels into the digital world I have changed computers twice, and the version of Word
November 10, 2017
The Big Christmas Push
You can't have missed it. Every shop on the High Street has a Christmas display. Publishers are launching their titles for Christmas, or should I say, for Christmas presents, and Indie authors are no different. Well, a little different. Here they are offering a short, an extract, or a full novel, either free or for 99p / 99c. It's their shop window, a lead into each author's catalogue.
First
First
November 3, 2017
Gunpowder, Treason and Plot
Gunpowder Conspirators - from a print published after the discovery
England has never really gone in for anarchy and revolution to the extent of some other countries, but it has had its near misses. The one still recalled, and celebrated as "Bonfire Night" or "Guy Fawkes Night", is the attempt in 1605.
The plan was to destroy the House of Lords during the state opening of Parliament, thus
England has never really gone in for anarchy and revolution to the extent of some other countries, but it has had its near misses. The one still recalled, and celebrated as "Bonfire Night" or "Guy Fawkes Night", is the attempt in 1605.
The plan was to destroy the House of Lords during the state opening of Parliament, thus
October 27, 2017
31st October is Halloween. Er, Not Exactly
This year, Halloween in its purest form probably falls on 4th November so as to align with the full moon, but then we should, perhaps, call it Samhain. But don’t let that distract you from your ‘trick or treating’.Though if you are in the UK you really should be bobbing for apples, and if you are in Mexico perhaps you should be honouring recently deceased family members in Día de Muertos,
